wealth

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wealth /welθ/ W3 noun

1 [uncountableU]MONEYOWN a large amount of money, property etc that a person or country owns 〔某个人或国家的〕财富

The country’s wealth comes from its oil.

这个国家的财富来自石油。

the distribution of wealth (=the way wealth is divided among the people of a country or society)

财富的分配

The purpose of industry is to create wealth.

工业的目的就是创造财富。

2 a wealth of something a lot of something useful or good 丰富的某物

There is a wealth of information available about pregnancy and birth.

可以获得大量关于怀孕和分娩方面的信息。

Examples from the Corpus

a wealth of something• On the positive side, the authors have assembled a wealth of material.• To the informed eye, these simple orthogonal lines concealed a wealth of meaning.• In an effort to install management control, Gutfreund created a wealth of new titles.• From her newspaper stand on High Row, Darlington, Pat reckons she has gained a wealth of experience about human life.• Their data offer a wealth of information for continuing education of community dietitians / nutritionists to become effective leaders.• Successful nominees to the committee contribute greatly to the Trust's work, offering a wealth of specialist expertise and experience.• Fish and game and pineapples ... a wealth of eating.• These contrasting models provided the task force with a wealth of information and guidance.

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wealth• The market economic game has to begin with an initial distribution of income and wealth.• This chapter is concerned with the study of the unequal distribution of power, prestige and wealth in society.• Table 8-5 tracks the share of total household wealth held by the richest 1 percent of households between 1922 and 1981.• They invest it in creating more wealth.• It must be cleaned up and sanitized lest our environment become intolerable and our wealth a curse instead of a blessing.• Gradually we realised that despite the wealth, warmth and comfort, Templecombe held an eerie, sinister air.

create wealth• They do create wealth, but wealth that Thatcher and Co. want to cream off without paying anything in return.• Third, a large public sector aids economic decline since it does not create wealth whereas the private sector does.• And in the process, they began to create wealth on a very large scale.• The Conservative Government always said that we had to create wealth first, and then improve our public services.• The purpose of industry is to create wealth.• This positive mandate to create wealth however is in the context of our fiduciary responsibilities.• The order to create wealth can never justify permanent damage to the balance of nature.• Government can do much to set the boundaries in which it is possible to create wealth.

From Longman Business Dictionary

wealthwealth /welθ/ noun [uncountableU]

a large amount of money or valuable possessions

Colombia’s economy needn’t rely solely on its mineral wealth.

The legislation is designed to give American firms the ability togenerate wealth from overseas operations.

—wealthy adjectiveadj

The firm manages money for wealthy investors and small corporations.

→ national wealth

Origin wealth

(1200-1300) weal “good condition of life, prosperity” ((11-19 centuries)), from Old English wela

wealth noun

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